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http://www.urbandictionary.com/ has something to fit just about every occasion! Anyway who among us has not gone a-whoreding some night or other? Gender-adjusted of cuss.

whoreding Hanging out with girls and not inviting your friends to keep the girls to yourself (putting hoes before bros) Chester was totally whoreding last night I saw Daniela and Naobi posting pics of themselves with Chester from last night and he didnt call any of us by the jag who walks July 09, 2010 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whoreding

Ditto!

Shh!

Courtesy politico.com: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/snl-best-political-sketches-115176.html?hp=t1_r#.VN_4CD29LCQ

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I want to live at Lyndhurst, the Jay Gould estate on the Hudson in Tarrytown, NY. Room Tour This is the east elevation and carriage entry to Lyndhurst. The house was designed by American architect Alexander Jackson Davis as a villa in 1838 and was then known as Knoll. It was expanded to its current size and renamed Lyndhurst in 1866. The vestibule was originally the carriage porch for Knoll. The furniture, designed by A.J. Davis, has been in place since at least 1870. A tour through the house presents a journey through time: a room or group of rooms represents different owners. The Drawing Room, furnished to the Paulding era (1842-1865), features furniture designed by A.J. Davis for the house. The Entry Hall, Reception Room and Library represent the Merritt era (1867-1880). The Reception Room, or Salon, was primarily furnished with items acquired on their European travels. The figures on the ceiling represent the passage of the hours through day and night. The addition of a grand dining room in the late 1860s allowed the Merritts to convert the Pauldings former dining room into a library. The books in the Davis designed bookcases were purchased as a collection for Lyndhurst by Jay Gould. This is Jay Gould (1836-1892) in a portrait by Herbert von Herkomer, 1883. Gould purchased Lyndhurst in 1880, complete with furniture. His family owned the estate until Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand-Perigord, his younger daughter, bequested it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1961. It has been open to the public since 1965. The cabinet-secretary ordered by Jay Gould from the Wooton Company of Indiana around 1875 is in the Estate Office. Here the business affairs of the estate would be conducted. The Dining Room, added to the house in the 1860s, is the ultimate expression of Alexander Jackson Daviss work; he designed the space, the interior decor and the furniture, which was used by the Gould family until 1959. Stained glass was a feature of Lyndhurst from the beginning. Few of the original panes by Americas earliest stained glass maker, William Gibson, remain. These panels in the Dining Room were made by Henry Sharpe in the 1860s. Most of the current glass was installed by the Goulds, probably in the early 1880s. The Art Gallery is upstairs where the rooms represent the Goulds two daughters: Helen, who owned Lyndhurst from 1899 to 1938, and Anna, from 1939 to 1961. The current paintings were acquired by Jay Gould in 1880-1881 for Lyndhurst, primarily from Goupil (now Knoedler) Gallery in New York City. First Caresses by William Bouguereau, 1866, is the best known painting in the collection. The academic school European paintings are primarily important as a collection that has stayed together in the space for which they were intended. The South Bedroom was used by Jay Gould and then by his elder daughter Helen until her death in 1938. The bed was an A.J. Davis design for the Merritts, their monogram is on the footboard. The dresser is believed to be from the Paulding era; it is one of four. The North Guest Bedroom is one of the rooms with European furniture that reflects the taste of Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand-Perigord, who married into the French nobility. Returning to this country in 1939, she lived on the fourteenth floor of the Plaza Hotel, but maintained Lyndhurst both as a showplace for her auction acquisitions and as a retreat for herself and friends. Part of the Veranda, an essential part of the American country house, looking south. Looking northwest from the Veranda to the Tappan Zee bridge across the Hudson River. Some of the original apple trees from the orchard still remain on the lower slope. Lyndhurst offers visitors sixty-seven acres of restful and recreational environment. Both the Croton Aqueduct and the Hudson RiverWalk trails go through the estate. Helen Miller Gould had the rose garden constructed in 1911. Her sister replaced the original wood gazebo with the current marble and iron structure, which is often used for weddings. The rose garden was restored by the Garden Club of Irvington on Hudson in the 1960s and has been maintained by them ever since. Only the framework of the steel greenhouse built by Jay Gould in 1881 remains. It replaced the wooden Merritt structure which burned. The fern garden was re-created and is maintained by the Taconic Garden Club. Looking southwest from the Greenhouse toward the mansion. Nature offers an ever changing exhibition on the site. The Rose Cottage, constructed circa 1915, was a playhouse for the four children Helen and her husband, Finley Shepard, adopted after their wedding in 1913. This is the courtyard of the carriage complex, constructed by the Merritts in the 1860s. The complex now offers visitor amenities and is used for Lyndhursts special events. It is available for rental for weddings, corporate events and special occasions. ***** And, of course, Lyndhurst is where 'House of Dark Shadows' and 'Night of Dark Shadows' were filmed...

The Quest for the Historical Paul James Tabor considers Biblical and external accounts of the apostle http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/the-quest-for-the-historical-paul/

In the eye of a mega-drought: Researchers warn US should prepare for 'unprecedented drought conditions' unlike anything in past 1,000 years http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/in-the-eye-of-a-megadrought-researchers-warn-us-should-prepare-for-unprecedented-drought-conditions-unlike-anything-in-past-1000-years-10045747.html

Seeing it here is what you consider "firsthand experience"?!

That MsAnnie has got to eat more though. Skinny thing! She afraid the floor of her double-wide will fall through?

Thank goodness we just had our hair done. And Grandma, your color sense puts the rest of us to shame again.

Justice Ginsburg Throws Party While 120-Year-Old Parents Away For Weekend NEWS Supreme Court News ISSUE 4841 Oct 10, 2012 [link below for pic] Justice Ginsburg throws an epic fucking rager while her parents are out of town. ALEXANDRIA, VAWith her parents leaving town to celebrate their 98th wedding anniversary, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made plans Friday for a major house party, inviting all her Supreme Court colleagues to what she promised would be a classic Ginsburg throwdown. Ginsburg, a Clinton appointee who traditionally votes with the courts liberal wing and whose 120-year-old parents explicitly told her not to have any friends over, confirmed that she waited until her mother and father had pulled out of the driveway before texting its on to her fellow justices and telling them to get ready to drink [their] asses off. My dad is seriously crazy if he thinks Im not going to throw an epic rager when I have the house to myself all weekend, said Ginsburg, whose father, a furrier and haberdasher by trade, reportedly wrote down the mileage on his 1928 Ford Model A so he would know if his daughter took it out for a spin. As far as Im concerned, when the cats are away, the mice will play. Besides, Im 79, she continued as she prepared a tray of Jell-O shots using the mix favored by her supercentenarian mother for its softness on her toothless gums. They cant tell me what to do anymore. According to sources, Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer, and Clarence Thomas arrived first, catching a ride to the party in the open-backed Jeep Wrangler of Chief Justice John Roberts, who had earlier persuaded his older sister Kathy to buy beer. Justices Sotomayor and Kagan showed up shortly thereafter, having taken longer than expected to dupe their parents into thinking they were sleeping over at each others houses. Though David Souter had hoped to drive down from New Hampshire and party with the court like old times, the retired justice told reporters he had to cancel when his plan to squeeze some gas money out of the old man fell through. Originally intended as a justices-only thing, the partygoers said the gathering grew much larger when Scalia posted the address of the house on the Justice Departments Facebook page, inviting everyone who views the writ of certiorari as essential to a robust judiciary to come get shwasted at RBGs place. Partys off the fucking hook! exclaimed Breyer, taking a body shot from a 58-year-old court stenographer who had come with friends from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Dont get me wrong, [Elena] Kag[an]s confirmation bash was the shit, but this ones in a totally different league. Id forgotten how cute first-year federal clerkship girls are. Damn! Im definitely getting ass tonight, he added, excusing himself to get blazed with a group of special assistant U.S. attorneys in the familys carriage shed. Meanwhile, reigning flip-cup champions Kennedy and Alito reportedly set up shop on an oak bagatelle table in the parlor, with games getting so out of hand they nearly broke a porcelain vase recently given to Ginsburg by her 156-year-old grandmother. Witnesses reported that at approximately 1 a.m., the revelry came to a grinding halt when a police car was spotted in the driveway, prompting the nine members of the highest court in the land to scatter into the woods behind the house. After an initial scramble by the justices to hide the weed and reach a consensus on whether law enforcement in this instance had probable cause to search persons for possession of a controlled substance, Ginsburg, who was the most sober and once served as general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, was nominated to the do the talking. The cops were pretty cool and let me off with a warning to keep the noise down and make sure everyone got home safe, Ginsburg said. Its a good thing, too, because my dad would have really let me have some 19th-century discipline if he found out I had people over. Hes such an old fogy, and it sucks, because Im much more responsible now than I was in my 60s, she continued, adding that her father has never fully trusted her since smelling vodka on her breath one night in 1998. He still thinks of me as being this much younger woman who just qualified for Medicare. Ginsburg confirmed she would clean the house meticulously Saturday to avoid what happened after her last party, when her father discovered an empty can of beer on his wind-up Victrola gramophone and grounded her for the remainder of the courts term. http://www.theonion.com/articles/justice-ginsburg-throws-party-while-120yearold-par,29871/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:NA:InFocus

Perhaps suffice to add this is one of those questions best answered by gaining some firsthand experience of the subject.

This scholar's research is endlessly fascinating to me. The Search for the Historical Paul: Which Letters Did He Really Write? John Dominic Crossan Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University The 13th-century Sopoćani monastery is a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the source of the Raška River, just east of Novi Pazar in the south-western corner of Serbia. After two centuries of attack, desolation and abandonment, its Church of the Holy Trinity is now rebuilt, its frescoes restored and its monastic life revived. In the southern choir of that eastward-pointing church are frescoes of seven apostles. Five are now unidentifiable, as time and decay has literally defaced them, but each is folding a single scroll. Matthew is identifiable and he is holding the book of his Gospel. But the most clearly identifiable is the leading figure on the choir's east wall. It is the apostle Paul, complete with his recognizable receding hairline. His right hand is raised in the traditional Byzantine teaching gesture of fingers separated into two (for two natures in Christ) and three (for three Persons in the Trinity). What is extraordinary, however, is that his left hand holds 10 clearly distinguishable scrolls -- not a single scroll or book but 10 scrolls in a cluster. Why 10 scrolls when Christianity's New Testament attributes 13 letters to the apostle Paul: letters to communities such as the Romans, Corinthians (twice), Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians (twice) and to individuals such as Timothy (twice), Titus and Philemon. There is, however, a massive consensus in modern scholarship that those three letters to Timothy and Titus were written in Paul's name but long after his death. It would seen, then, that around 1265 a Byzantine artist at Sopoćani already accepted that viewpoint -- hence, only 10 scrolls for 10 letters. There is also a strong (but not massive) consensus among much of modern scholarship that a further three of those 10 letters were not written by Paul. In other words, we have seven letters certainly from the historical Paul (Romans, 1-2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, Philemon), three others probably not from him (Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians) and a final three certainly not from him (1-2 Timothy, Titus). Those are all, of course, historical conclusions and not dogmatic presumptions. Well and good, but, even if correct, so what? And why should anyone care? It is not just that we have factual and fictional letters of "Paul" or that those 13 letters are mixed between a Paul and a Pseudo-Paul. It is not just that, after Paul's death, followers imagined him in new situations and had him respond to new problems -- as if in a seamless if fictional continuity from past into present and future. The problem is that those post-Pauline or Pseudo-Pauline letters are primarily counter-Pauline and anti-Pauline. What happens across those three sets of letters is that the radical Paul of the authentic seven letters (Romans, 1-2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, Philemon) is slowly but steadily morphed into the conservative Paul of the probably inauthentic threesome (Ephesians Colossians, 2 Thessalonians) and finally into the reactionary Paul of those certainly inauthentic ones (1-2 Timothy, Titus). In other words, the radical Paul is being deradicalized, sanitized and Romanized. His radical views on, for example, slavery and patriarchy, are being retrofitted into Roman cultural expectations and Roman social presuppositions. Watch, then, how it works in terms of slavery (I leave patriarchy for my next blog in this series on Paul): The radical and historical Paul sent back the now-converted slave Onesimus to his owner and told him that a Christian could not own a Christian for how could Christians be equal and unequal to one another at the same time? He reminds him "to do your duty," to free Onesimus, and to consider him "no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a beloved brother -- especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord" (Philemon 1:8,16). Next, the later, conservative counter-Paul takes Christian owners with Christian slaves absolutely for granted, addresses both classes and reminds each of its mutual obligations. "Slaves obey ... fearing the Lord" and "Masters treat your slaves justly ... you also have a Master in heaven" (Colossians 3:22-4:1 & Ephesians 6:5-9). Christian-on-Christian slavery is back but now in kinder, gentler mode! Finally, the still later and reactionary anti-Paul never mentions mutual duties, addresses only the master, and says to "tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and ... to be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Savior" (Titus 2:9-10). What is at stake in that sad progression from Paul to anti-Paul? Why is it of importance that -- at least with regard to slavery -- radical Christian liberty is being changed back into normal Roman slavery. It means this: Jewish Christianity is becoming Roman Christianity. And this: Constantine here we come! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-dominic-crossan/apostle-paul-letters_b_890387.html

Have you never had sex? There is an entire body there beneath you (or wherever), not just the hole. An asshole feels different from a cunt as well. And the couple of female assholes I've fucked felt different from men's. If all that is not TMI.

US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted that her traditional State of the Union nap may have been induced by a glass or two of wine. At a talk in Washington DC with her friend and fellow justice Antonin Scalia on Thursday night, Ginsburg said she had not been “100% sober” during President Obama’s address in January. “The audience for the most part is awake, because they are bobbing up and down all the time and we sit there, stone-faced, sober justices, “ said Ginsburg. “But we’re not – at least I wasn’t – 100% sober.” She said the culprit was a fine wine Justice Anthony Kennedy brought to dinner before the speech. “I vowed this year just sparkling water, stay away from the wine, but the dinner was so delicious it needed wine,” said Ginsburg, who had a front-row seat for Obama’s speech. Her comment, at an event hosted by the Smithsonian Associates and moderated by NPR’s Nina Totenberg, confirmed speculation about whether the justice dozed off during Obama’s speech – as she has done before. This year, the justices sitting on either side of her – Kennedy and Stephen Breyer – were seen nudging their colleague in an attempt to keep her awake. Breyer, who is on the lefter side of the bench with Ginsburg, nudged her at least eight times during the ceremony, according to the Washington Post. Kennedy and Breyer reportedly tried to keep her awake during the 2013 State of the Union. Ginsburg has said the two justices are “not as effective” at keeping her awake as former justice David Souter – “at the first sign, he’d give me a solid pinch”, she said in 2010. Three justices did not attend this year’s State of the Union – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Scalia. In 2013, Scalia called the event a “childish spectacle”. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/13/ruth-bader-ginsburg-sober-state-of-the-union

She says she just had a little drinkie-poo with dinner beforehand! Wouldn't you have?

Who farted?

Hah!